Iron FistEver since the beginning of time there have been so called “dictators” taking control of a group of people or even entire nations and doing terrible things to keep that control. In the novel 1984, “Big Brother” plays the role of a dictator in the nation Oceana. Like dictators of the past Big Brother portrays himself to being superior to the people he has control of by making them see everything he does as being the right thing. Iosif Vassarionovic Dzhugashuili, better known as Joseph Stalin, related closely to Big Brother, in ways of using mind control of his people.

The first and most important step to taking over the mind of humans would be portraying the ideal person, or “cult of personality”. In Robert Tucker’s article American Historical Review, he tells that Stalin takes this first step by making the Marxist theory the current practice (Tucker, 350). According to Vic Biorseth of Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com, the Marxist theory’s goal was to create an eventual perfect, classless, utopian society, or what we call communism. By making all people equal nobody feels that they are being treated unjust.

In the novel 1984, Big Brother follows this rule in a way by having rules and posters, which portray to the people what Big Brother believes is the ideal human being. Also you notice in the novel everywhere in Oceana there is a telescreen that keeps people in line and catches the people who commit “hate crime”, an act in which you disobey one of Big Brothers rules. Again, with everyone being treated the same nobody has reason to feel shafted by the government.

A popular way of getting control of people is breaking them down and building them back up. This is a way to make people believe that you are really treating them well and almost spoiling them…………

Though people may feel that they are being treated well, there is always an opposing side, whether it is a large amount of people or just a few, they will do anything to find a way to...

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Which character is being mistreated in the text and why?
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1. How does the archive footage during the opening moments of the film prepare the audience for the story?
It prepares and keeps us aware that the movie would be about homogenous, propagandas, political crimes and influences and brain washed people. It really had a negative effect on how the movie would be and how unhappy the people were.
2. How does the film present the people who watch this footage?
The film presents the people as people who can’t think for themselves. They have been brain washed into believing the political parties propagandas and like the answer to question 1 everyone is homogenous, very bland, no individuality and boring.
3. Examine the following settings in the film?
Winston’s apartment- Winston’s apartment was a very old room. It looked extremely lonely to be in there and dirty. There was a chair in the corner and in a secret part of his wall was where he kept a diary of his thoughts. His apartment also looked very cold and dull and it seemed as although if he didn’t have much privacy with a tele-screen in the middle of his room watching his every move.
Winston’s office – Winston’s office was extremely crammed and small with a tele-screen of Big Brother once again. There was not much privacy and the office was pretty much the same for everyone and there really isn’t much movement to make in the office.
The cafeteria – The cafeteria was nothing exciting. Just like everything else it was dirty, crammed and extremely busy and...

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Introduction
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”, George Orwell. Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, projects the distress of a tyranny. Plato presented a developmentally regime in descending order of virtue where Democracy is in the fourth place and Tyranny is the last . Democracy can be defined as a state which is ruled by the people; example is the Philippines which is a republican, democratic country as stated in the article II section 1 of the Philippine constitution . On the other hand, Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right and making use of the power not for the good of the people in a state but for the ruler’s own private and separate advantages. Tyranny, from the root word tyrant, can be defined as an oppressive and cruel government to which the people’s rights were denied. There are countries which successfully changed their type of government, but the question is how? What do people need to do in order to prevent oppression?
Discussion
In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three super states: Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia which happens to have the same type of government. Oceania has three social levels: the upper-class called the Inner Party which consists 2% of the population, the middle-class or the Outer Party which is almost 13% of...